Can anyone ID these border flowers outside a coffee shop?

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These seem to be holding up well, look pretty and still going strong this time of year. Occupy a sort of raised border outside a Surrey coffee shop, this sort of thing seems quite usual these days. I'd like something similar for my garden border.

I do wonder how plants in front gardens and such areas stay there and don't get dug up by those with light fingers as well as green fingers.

Looks like a wildflower mix to me. There's definitely cornflower in there which is a common wildflower.

That looks a bit like a packet of wildflower seed mix has been sown. Something like this

The deep pink ones with grey/white foliage are rose campion.

The paler pink ones dangling down are known as pinks -or dianthus

They look like that at first sight, but ipf you enlarge the pic, you’ll see they’re cornflowers

There’s no rose campion in the photo.

Agree, it looks like a “wildflower mix” although there isn’t a single UK wildflower in the photo. The nearest is the pink cornflower, but the wild cornflower is blue, and, although common in “wildflower mixes”, it’s exceedingly rare in the wild.

No point in the light fingered digging up plants, the ones in the picture are annuals and will die by the end of the year, perennials won’t survive unless dug up carefully, with the associated risk of disturbance in the act. Difficult work for little return, as resale value would be low. Easy to pick up containers do get stolen from front gardens.

My mistake @jackles There is a rose campion, you’re quite right

I nearly missed that. The bigger deep pink ones look like cosmos to me.

Yes, i agree with that. Not sure about bottom right. The open flower facing us in the rose campion area doesn’t look like rose campion, but I think that’s just the quality of the picture

Is the yellow one a Bidens?

Do you know, I might alert the coffee shop owner about this thread, they might get a laugh out of it!

Thanks for all the answers...

So the wildflower seed mix, do I plant that in autumn for best results then? And I take it the rose campion wouldn't be among those?

So the wildflower seed mix, do I plant that in autumn for best results then? And I take it the rose campion wouldn't be among those?

I think they're mostly annuals sown in spring, apart from the rose campion which is a biennial or short-lived perennial.

Sow in spring on bare soil. Unless you take care to source your wildflower seeds to get only natives, what you get is anyone’s guess! But if you’re after the effect in your photo, you won’t need to chase after natives. A “good for pollinators” mix would give you a similar effect

Yellow ones look like Coreopsis.

That’s what mine looks like, I just chucked em down in late June and they came up, will do it Earlier next year

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